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* Only tox has to be installed via pip, everything else is in virtual environment. Nose is no longer used. * One should NOT run other tox commands in an existing tox environment. This is not how tox is intended to be used, and it cause weird failures or seemingly random virtual environment rebuilds. * Drop statement about running unit tests on a clear VM. Not sure where it comes from, only tox and setuptools are required to run unit tests, and they don't mess with system packages. Only leave note about devstack, as people seem to have problems with it. Change-Id: Ie7d0172b66231cfd8f9c4f8f2d76604a187443b0
Ironic
Ironic is an integrated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI together to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
Project Resources
- Free software: Apache license
- Documentation: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic
- Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic
- Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic
- Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ironic
Project status, bugs, and blueprints are tracked on Launchpad:
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